Events on Thursday, June 12
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- Tony Joe White
- @ Cafe du Nord
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- Film: Documentary
- Trembling Before G-d
- @ JCC East Bay
- After debuting on the festival circuit in 2001, Sandi Simcha DuBowski's compassionate documentary about the lives of gay and lesbian Hasidic... View details »
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- Citizen Fish
- @ Bottom of the Hill
- The Subhumans perfectly embodied the raw, inclusive vitality of early 1980s UK anarcho-punk. When the group broke up, most of the... View details »
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- Mammatus
- @ 12 Galaxies
- Intimidating in their wizard garb, Mammatus earned cred in freak-out psych circles opening for Acid Mothers Temple and playing music inspired... View details »
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- Headlands Benefit Auction
- @ Herbst Pavilion, Fort Mason Center
- Housed at Fort Barry's scenic coastal location since the '80s, the Headlands Center for the Arts nurtures emerging and veteran artists... View details »
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- Singer
- @ Rickshaw Stop
- Tonight's a double bill for connoisseurs of damaged guitar rock. Battles beat Singer to the punch as the first post-rock supergroup,... View details »
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- Reading
- Chris Carlsson
- @ City Lights
- One of the mavericks who helped to launch the Critical Mass bike demonstrations, Chris Carlsson is in a unique position to... View details »
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- Birth of the Cool
- @ Oakland Museum of California
- Fashion designer Christian Lacroix put it most directly: "...the history of cool in America is the history of African-American culture." That... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- 'Tis Pity She's a Whore
- @ American Conservatory Theater
- Passions run hot, and blood flows freely in ACT's riveting production of John Ford's grim, rarely staged 17th-century revenge story. Michael... View details »
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- Paul Sietsema
- @ SFMOMA
- Los Angeles artist Paul Sietsema presents an exceptional body of recent drawings and films in SFMOMA's New Work series. Sietsema straddles... View details »
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- Christopher Brown and Clare Kirkconnell
- @ John Berggruen Gallery
- Christopher Brown and Clare Kirkconnell's concurrent exhibitions at John Berggruen Gallery have sympathetic interests: each artist makes work that quietly reinterprets... View details »
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- Film
- Berlin Alexanderplatz
- @ SFMOMA
- As a New German Cinema progenitor obsessed with stylish reconstructions of his country's troubled 20th-century history, R.W. Fassbinder had a natural... View details »
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- American Symbols
- @ Museum of Craft and Folk Art
- Recognized worldwide as a cultural symbol, the American flag is an object that elicits many personal and political emotions and interpretations.... View details »
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- ArtSpan: 30 Under 30
- @ Varnish Fine Art
- Bay Area Now 5 doesn't hit the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts until July, but ArtSpan has the jump on... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Alan B. Stone and the Senses of Place
- @ SF Camerawork
- Alan B. Stone's crisp black-and-white photography tells two tales of Montreal. One concerns the changes Stone's hometown underwent during mayor Jean... View details »
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- Sarah Wagner
- @ Patricia Sweetow Gallery
- Sarah Wagner turns out delicate textile sculptures that resemble tangled roots and vines. Her faux-plant shapes sprout from the gallery's cement... View details »
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- The Rape of the Sabine Women
- @ SFMOMA
- Eve Sussman and the Rufus Corporation's epic video-opera, The Rape of the Sabine Women, is a sprawling, beguiling exploration of classical... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- The Reggae Scrapbook
- @ Babylon Falling
- The Reggae Scrapbook is a love letter from two eternal fanboys to Jamaica's best-known export. Drawing from their memories, publications, and... View details »
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- Under 100
- @ Root Division
- From the tony white walls of 49 Geary to the warehouse studios in Hunter's Point, SF lays claim to nearly every... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- New American Fables
- @ Robert Koch Gallery
- Amy Stein's twisted fables are a far cry from anything Aesop ever wrote. Unlike the tales of ancient storybooks, Stein's photographic... View details »
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- 365
- @ 111 Minna Gallery
- 365 showcases 14 of the country's best contemporary abstract artists working in every style, from nouveau-surrealist to neo-expressionist. The visual... View details »
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- Tim Lee
- @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
- Although it's tempting to dismiss Vancouver-based artist Tim Lee's use of comedy-as-conceptual-device as lacking in depth or social concern, to mistake... View details »
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- Quarter Century
- @ Creativity Explored
- Creativity Explored has long been an outlet for local developmentally challenged adults to express their artistic visions. Now celebrating its 25th... View details »
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- Film: Festival
- 4th Annual Queer Women of Color Film Festival
- @ Brava Theater Center
- This annual festival presents a broad spectrum of narratives crafted by contemporary filmmakers who draw on personal experiences, both as queer... View details »
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- Hopeless and Otherwise
- @ Southern Exposure
- With elections around the corner, many Americans are dreaming of change, but this group of artists remains skeptical, exploring moments of... View details »
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- Chicago 10
- @ Red Vic
- Abbie Hoffman stated the obvious when he titled his autobiography Soon to Be a Major Motion Picture. The volatile, vocal (and... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Ryan McGinley
- @ Ratio 3
- Ryan McGinley's metier is youth. The often smiling, and more often nude men and women cavorting in his photos are like... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Trevor Paglen
- @ Berkeley Art Museum
- Trevor Paglen photographs what we can't see — and what the government doesn't want us to see. Using a battery of... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- After the Revolution
- @ San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery
- Between Azar Nafisi's memoir Reading Lolita in Tehran and Marjane Satrapi's graphic novel (and now animated feature) Persepolis, post-revolutionary autobiography has... View details »
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- Improbable\Unlikely
- @ Eleanor Harwood Gallery
- David M. Stein's first solo show of improbable objects should provoke double takes, plus a chuckle or two. In The Unlikely... View details »
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- Karla Wozniak
- @ Gregory Lind Gallery
- Karla Wozniak's exhibition of new paintings takes a shot at the endless string of strip malls and billboards that lines nearly... View details »
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- SF Black Film Festival
- @ Various locations
- The San Francisco Black Film Festival premiered in 1998 as a one-day event. Ten years make quite a difference: this year's... View details »
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- Art & Artifice
- @ Museum of Performance & Design
- Emerging with a rejuvenated image and collection in March, the Museum of Performance & Design mounts an impressive exhibit chronicling the... View details »
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- Suzanne Husky
- @ Triple Base
- Suzanne Husky's installations resemble playrooms where the dolls have broken loose. But the miniature worlds she creates, rife with greed and... View details »
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- Amanda M. Smith: Candy Garden and Sparkling Sabers
- @ Jack Fischer Gallery
- Little children run amok in Amanda M. Smith's series of exquisitely rendered ceramic reliefs. Set in a vivid world of flattened,... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The Group
- @ Climate Theater
- From Dale Carnegie to Norman Vincent Peale (who coined the phrase "the power of positive thinking") to the current worldwide success... View details »
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- A Complicated Dominion
- @ San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery
- When 19th-century wildlife artist John James Audubon cataloged the birds of North America, he painted the creatures in pristine environments. With... View details »
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- Reclaiming Materials: Four Sculptors Recycle
- @ Sculpturesite Gallery
- One person's trash is another person's treasure — or sculpture, as is the case at Sculpturesite's current exhibition of art works... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Theatre of the Ridiculous Revival
- @ Hypnodrome
- Not to be confused with the Theater of the Absurd, the Theatre of the Ridiculous was the love child of Gay... View details »
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- William T. Wiley
- @ Electric Works
- Pinball machines have largely been relegated to the scrap yard of nostalgia, but that hasn't stopped William T. Wiley from resurrecting... View details »
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- Bitter Pills
- @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
- Michael Haneke's 2007 English-language remake of his notorious Funny Games (1997) hit US theaters with the unexpected wallop of a hard... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Bruce Conner: Mabuhay Gardens
- @ Berkeley Art Museum
- After he broke through as an underground filmmaker in 1958, Bruce Conner kept a close eye on the cultural zeitgeist. He... View details »
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- Leigh Wells
- @ Gallery 16
- Illustrator Leigh Wells builds collages over discarded reproductions of of great masters. Her new exhibition at Gallery 16 delights in little... View details »
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- Dykes on Bikes®
- @ GLBT Historical Society
- Like chrome-and-leather-swathed valkyries rumbling down Market Street, Dykes on Bikes have long been the kickoff contingent of the San Francisco Pride... View details »
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- Adam5100
- @ Rowan Morrison
- The graffiti artist Adam5100 may have started out bombing derelict sections of Albuquerque, New Mexico, but he's brushed up on his... View details »
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- Alicia McCarthy
- @ Jack Hanley Gallery
- Mission School alum Alicia McCarthy has been cleaning out her closet — at least that's the impression one gets from this... View details »
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- Another Hole in the Head
- @ Roxie Theater
- Now in its fifth year, the SF Indie's Another Hole in the Head Festival features two weeks of sci-fi and horror... View details »
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- The Way That We Rhyme
- @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
- American culture always seems poised to pronounce feminism down for the count, when it clearly still has plenty of fighting to... View details »
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- Christian Marclay
- @ Fraenkel Gallery
- Christian Marclay pioneered the turntable as a musical instrument in the late '70s, scratching out experimental sounds with vinyl found in... View details »
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- Within Two Hands: The Eye of the Collector
- @ San Francisco Museum of Craft+Design
- Peter Voulkos founded the Arts Ceramics departments at both Los Angeles' Otis College of Art and Design and UC-Berkeley in the... View details »
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- Portals
- @ Johansson Projects
- This trio of artists transforms one-dimensional planes of paper into doorways that lead to strange universes. Armed with an X-Acto knife,... View details »
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- Sean Talley
- @ Jancar Jones Gallery
- Sean Talley's new series of silkscreen prints at Jancar Jones Gallery contains understated, insightful contrasts. Richly colored, sparse populations of shapes... View details »
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- 2nd Skin
- @ Exploratorium
- With a futuristic, tongue-in-cheek vision, the artists featured in the 2nd Skin fashion exhibit challenge the standard notions of practical clothing.... View details »
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- Film: Documentary
- Up the Yangtze
- @ Landmark Lumiere Theatre
- Earthquakes and social protest make headlines, but a far more complex and subtle catastrophe is taking shape in the shadow of... View details »
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